- Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) (1998)
Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist), a splinter-group from the
Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) formed onMarch 5 1998 .Sahana Pradhan was the chair of the party andBam Dev Gautam the general secretary. [ [http://www.nepalnews.com.np/archive/2001/october/arc278.htm Nepalnews.com (newsflash) Arc278) ] ] Within the CPN(UML) a power struggle had taken place after the death ofMadan Bhandari . Gautam and Pradhan advocated a tactical alliance with theRastriya Prajatantra Party , which the CPN(UML) general secretaryMadhav Kumar Nepal opposed. [Parajulee, Ramjee P.. "The Democratic Transition in Nepal". Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. p. 289] Moreover, CPN(ML) opposed theMahakali river treaty withIndia . CPN(ML) described the split in the following wordings in the manifesto::"CPN-ML was born as a result of revolt by revolutionary and patriotic force against national capitalist, and liquidationist policies and programmes of the CPN-UML. This was not the revolt for the sake of revolt; it was the revolt to restructure and re-organise the communist movement based on the principles of revolutionary Marxism." [ [http://www.hri.ca/partners/insec/Yb1999/Annex_2.shtml] Dead link|date=March 2008]
CPN(ML) won over the majority of the party membership in the
Kathmandu Valley and almost half of the parliamentary group of CPN(UML)Fact|date=February 2007. From September to December that year, CPN(ML) took part in the government led byG.P. Koirala .In the 1999 parliamentary elections CPN(ML) got 6.4% of the votes nationwide, but failed to win a single seat. The division of the communists directly contributed to the electoral victory of the
Nepali Congress (which had less votes than CPN(ML) and CPN(UML) combined).In January 2002 CPN(ML) formed a three-member team to negotiate re-unification with CPN(UML). The team was headed by
R.K. Mainali . [ [http://www.nepalnews.com.np/archive/2002/january/arc323.htm Nepalnews.com (newsflash) Arc321) ] ] OnFebruary 15 ,2002 CPN(ML) reunified with CPN(UML). ButC.P. Mainali , an important party leader, refused to go along and reconstituted his own CPN(ML). [ [http://www.nepalnews.com.np/archive/2002/february/arc329.htm Nepalnews.com (newsflash) Arc329) ] ]References
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